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Microsoft Ireland's Imagine Cup winners announced this evening

I've just returned from the first Microsoft Ireland finals of the Imagine Cup , an annual international student competition hosted by Microsoft. The theme of the Imagine Cup competition this year is "Imagine a world where technology enables a better education Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:23 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Microsoft Robotics Studio, and teaching robotics north of the arctic circle

I was excited to see a good friend, Mona, start blogging about her experience running a science center located north of the arctic circle. It's fascinating reading. They're designing interactive exhibits and experiments: everything from visualizing DNA Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:12 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

Imagine Cup 2007: IT Challenge Online Quiz: Round 1 is *tomorrow*

Over 100 students from 23 Colleges and Universities in Ireland and Northern Ireland have registered for the Imagine Cup Competition . And it's not too late: the competition is open to students from all third level Colleges and Universities around the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 27, 2007 3:42 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

We are running the Imagine Cup in Ireland this year!

For the first time ever, this year's Imagine Cup competition will include Ireland ! I just got out of a meeting with Liam Cronin, one of my colleagues here at Microsoft Ireland, who is leading the charge and making it happen. The Imagine Cup is an international Read More...
Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 11:26 AM by robburke | 5 Comments

Students ask the most interesting things

Last Wednesday I gave a presentation to SkyNet , the University of Limerick Computer Society. About 30 undergrad and graduate students turned up for Atlas, Vista and pizza, in that order. What I showed them was basically a riff on my ASP.NET "Atlas" presentation Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 17, 2006 7:13 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

Top Tips for free Microsoft support and training resources

Clare asked Dave and me to reveal some hidden gems that are available from Microsoft for technical support and learning. This was our list of the shiniest gems that we find devs and IT pros don't always know about. I also posted the Best of the Rest as Read More...
Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 11:39 AM by robburke | 5 Comments

Illusion, Theory, Computation: Andrew Blake on Computer Vision

Here is a link to the slides from Andrew Blake's fascinating presentation last night on Computer Science and Illusion. ( 44MB, zipped PPT ) His presentation took us on a journey through four topics from computer vision: perspective drawing, texture, shading, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:07 AM by robburke | 4 Comments

Looking forward to Computer Science and Illusion on Wednesday in Dublin

If you're in the Dublin area, don't forget that Andrew Blake from Microsoft Research will be presenting on Wednesday night at Trinity College Dublin on the subject of Computer Science and Illusion . The talk will explore and demonstrate connections between Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:50 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

Andrew Blake, 'Computer Science and Illusion' presentation in Dublin, September 6th

A highly respected Senior Researcher from Microsoft Research in Cambridge is visiting Dublin on Wednesday September 6th to give an evening's presentation titled Computer Science and Illusion: A Computational View of the Interpretation and Manipulation Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:32 AM by robburke | 3 Comments

XNA Game Studio Express

" XNA Game Studio Express is a set of tools based on Visual C# Express 2005 that allow students and hobbyists to build games that target both Windows and Xbox 360." To all the enthusiasts, hobbyists and students who have ever asked me if they could develop Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 4:35 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

Microsoft Research, in graphic detail, at Siggraph 2006

While I was away in Canada last week, Siggraph 2006 was taking place down in Boston. Many of the papers from that enormously engaging conference on graphics and interactive techniques are now available on the web . During the conference, I enjoyed reading Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:43 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

RoboCup tournament at the National College of Ireland (and dancing robots in general)

While scanning through the papers this weekend (over some Taiwanese High Mountain green tea that was relayed to me by the thoughtful and multilingual Eric Fish ), I discovered that robots had invaded the National College of Ireland on Friday ! NCI had Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:48 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

Microsoft Research in Cambridge: Applied Games Group visit

I had the good fortune of spending Thursday and Friday last week at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. I had been invited to visit by Ralf Herbrich and Thore Graepel, the leaders of MSRC's newly-formed Applied Games Group . Before starting the Applied Games Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 4:18 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Ireland .Net Developers Conference - 3rd and 4th of May - Tentative Agenda

Next week, on the 3rd and 4th of May, four of our technical communities - the ICS , INDA , IrishDev , and NIMTUG - are joining forces to host their largest .NET developer conference ever at the Morrison Hotel in Dublin. If you're a developer, a project Read More...
Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 1:39 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

UCD Visual Studio 2005 Launch - Slides and Links

I gave a presentation yesterday to a packed room of students and faculty of the Univeristy College Dublin School of Computer Science and Informatics. I love speaking with student audiences - they ask the most insightful questions, don't pull punches, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:34 PM by robburke | 0 Comments
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